WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., and SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Arxan Technologies Inc. today (Tuesday, June 14) announced plans to make its proven software protection technology more widely available for a variety of commercial applications.

Arxan Technologies develops anti-tampering software designed to reduce piracy, hacking and reverse-engineering by making code capable of defending and healing itself. The technology scatters tiny security modules called Guards™ in the product to be protected. These Guards form a complex interrelated network to protect the application and each other. Guards effectively behave like antibodies injected in the code – defending against, detecting and reacting to attempted attacks. Extensively tested both in commercial and government software assurance laboratories (versus other software protection methods), Arxan’s guarding approach has received the highest ratings in security and implementation efficiency.

Arxan services a wide range of security assurance levels – not just military-grade. Arxan’s commercial offerings use a completely different set of Guards, newly designed from the ground up, to best serve commercial protection needs. The company has appointed former Microsoft Corp. security compliance specialist Avni Rambhia to lead Arxan’s efforts to accelerate further adoption of this technology for applications such as software license enforcement, intellectual property (IP) protection, gaming and digital rights management (DRM). For example, Arxan now provides products and solutions to help DRM technology licensees meet applicable robustness rules.

"Arxan’s products and solutions embody a powerful mix of grounded, established security principles and bleeding-edge security technology,” said Rambhia. "The company is in an exciting phase of expansion and growth, and my first goal here is to create a global strategy for adapting our established products, solutions and services to serve a wider variety of commercial software and DRM market needs."

Rambhia, Arxan’s new senior director for product strategy and management, began her career with New Jersey-based e-Vue Inc., where she designed secure standards-compliant MPEG platforms. As e-Vue’s director of engineering, she oversaw software product planning, development, testing and deployment, and helped with product strategy, business development and patenting strategy. She also served as co-chair and co-editor of the Intellectual Property Management and Protection (IPMP) working groups for MPEG-4 and MPEG-21, and invented significant parts of the specification architecture.

With Microsoft Corp., Rambhia was responsible for drafting robustness rules for Windows Media DRM technologies, developing implementation guidelines for conformant products, educating adopters in the robustness requirements and helping them to create adequately secure implementations. She also helped ensure that Microsoft’s own multimedia products met applicable robustness rules.

"We appreciate Avni’s passion for protecting digital assets in all forms," said Arxan’s CEO Rich Earley. "She frequently conducts workshops and talks on threat modeling (particularly for hostile administrator scenarios), copyright management strategy, designing robust multimedia products and digital rights management. This makes Avni an asset both to our company and our community."